Are you tired of spending far too much money on electrical energy bills? Net metering can reduce or eliminate these costs.
- Net-metering is a program of generating power for your own use, and swapping surplus daytime power exported to the grid in exchange for night-time power from the grid. This can drive your hydro bills nearly to zero if your solar system is big enough and your consumption is less than your generation.
- There is no program on Ontario for the home owner to sell the electricity they generate. Net metering is the only program that provides a financial benefit for grid connected systems.
On May 27 2021 the federal government announced the Canada Greener Homes Grant program. We do the "Solar Ready" assessment that is described in this program, so that the pre-fit Energy audit can contain the details of a solar upgrade to qualify for an up to 5K grant. This applies only to your principle residence. You must get a pre-retrofit audit before proceeding with the solar installation in order to qualify for this grant.
Are you looking to build or retrofit a cottage or home with electricity when no grid connection is possible, or it is TOO expensive?
Are you looking for a way to make your property more environmentally friendly?
Do you heat your hot water with electricity, oil or propane and would like to reduce your energy costs by using free solar heat for part of your hot water heating needs?
If you've answered "yes" to any questions, then you've come to the right place. We can help you outfit your property with solar panels that are good for both the environment and your wallet.
The benefits in addition to reducing your carbon footprint are:
- Net metering
- Provides great protection against rising hydro rates, and is an option in most provinces in Canada. All power is exchanged at the prevailing retail price, with no subsidy of any kind. Your hydro bill drops almost to zero. You use the grid as a virtual battery, exporting power when you have a surplus on sunny days, and importing power at night and on cloudy days.
- Off-Grid
- This is the solution where the cost of hydro line installation to a remote property is unaffordable, or not even possible. We can help with planning, design, and custom kit of parts for DIY systems.
- Note:
- We supply customized kits of parts for DIY install of solar electric systems. We no longer do any PV installations ourselves.
Solar panels are a solid investment at almost any Canadian location property where there is good access to sunlight. With energy costs perpetually on the rise, we can help you save money while increasing the value of your property.
Because we want to design a net metering or off-grid system engineered for your electrical energy requirements, we'll learn more about your electrical consumption. We'll match your needs and design a custom system using top quality products.
We offer a solar site assessment to both determine the technical details of an instalation at your site, the expected amount of power that can be generated and to explain to you some of the details of a DIY instalation if you are planning to do a DIY instalation.
- Solar DHW
- We also provide complete solutions to reduce your energy costs for DHW (Domestic Hot Water) heating, hydronic heating and solar hot water for commercial applications. And for your summer fun, we sell top performing solar pool heater kits.
Net metering?
If you're interested in a project that you can complete on your own, we supply do-it-yourself kits throughout Canada. Each one is customized to meet your requirements.
Who can participate? There is one restriction. The hydro utilities have rules to limit the amount of solar power on each part of the grid. Hydro One and other utilities have a 7% rule that they apply. If there are too many solar installations in your area, they may say there is insufficient capacity. This is the only restriction that applies to net metering under 10 kW in Ontario.
Solar System Repairs
We service and repair the DegerTracker HD5000HD family of dual axis trackers, the most common tracker installed in Ontario.
We can repair problems with most ground mounted and rooftop fixed (non-tracking) solar systems.
If you have a brand of tracker other than Deger and the original installer is no longer in business and the manufacturer is no longer in business we can fix many problems. See our page about fixing trackers for more details.